# inventory

Pronunciation: US say "IN-vuhn-tor-ee" /ˈɪn.vənˌtɔɹ.i/; UK/AUS say "IN-vuhn-tree" /ˈɪn.vən.tɹi/

## Noun

1. The stock of a particular item kept on hand at a business or location.
   - Simple: The amount of goods a store or business has ready to sell or use.
   - _The warehouse holds enough inventory to cover three months of orders._
   - _Rising costs forced the shop to reduce its inventory of imported goods._
2. A detailed list recording all of the items kept on hand.
   - Simple: A full list that shows every item a place has on hand.
   - _She compared the physical stock against the inventory line by line._
   - _The auditor found three items missing from the inventory._
3. The process of producing or updating a detailed list of the items on hand.
   - Simple: The job of counting items and writing down what a place has.
   - _Inventory is scheduled for the last weekend of every month._
   - _The team completed inventory ahead of the audit._
5. A storage space holding the items a game character carries for immediate use.
   - Simple: The set of items a character is carrying in a video game, ready to use.
   - _She rummaged through her inventory looking for the rope she had picked up._
   - _The game lets you expand your inventory by buying bigger bags._
6. The complete set of a particular linguistic feature found within a language.
   - Simple: The complete set of one kind of feature in a language, such as all its sounds.
   - _Linguists mapped the entire sound inventory of the endangered language._
   - _The vowel inventory expanded as the dialect borrowed foreign words._

## Verb

4. To count and record the resources or items on hand, producing a detailed list.
   - Simple: To count and list all the items a place has.
   - _Volunteers inventory the donated supplies before distributing them._
   - _Each branch must inventory its stock before the fiscal year ends._

## Origin

From Middle English inventorie, from Medieval Latin inventōrium, an alteration of Late Latin inventārium, ultimately from Latin inveniō meaning "to find out."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/inventory (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).